Has anyone with real cycling design bona fides done a dispassionate analysis comparing the advantages and disadvantages of carbon fiber and steel as materials for bicycle parts and frames?
For example, local builder Dave Porter claimed, or used to claim (this was 4-5 years ago) that he could build a steel bike as light as a carbon fiber one using the latest steels. OTOH, don't they use CF for F1 racing car cockpit tubs? Intelligently used (please note that qualification), would CF be both lighter and stronger in a bike frame properly designed for that material, than the best steel? Or just lighter? Or just stronger? Or neither? The discussion of CF *as such* and steel *as such* as frame materials so often doesn't prescind from the stupid light designs used by marketers to sell new bikes to the gullible. It would be refreshing to see an intelligent comparison of the materials' real advantages. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 8:01 AM, Surlyprof <jmcclu...@gmail.com> wrote: > *"I have never been forced to accept compromises but I have willingly > accepted constraints."* - Charles Eames > > I am also an Industrial Designer and teacher of future designers. Carbon > fiber is the choice of many young designers because, like any plastic > material, it seductively can be any shape you want it to be reducing or > eliminating constraints of materials and manufacturing processes. It > continues to be a staple in the bike industry because (1) the public was > led to believe it is better and (2) to go back to steel would reveal the > flaws in carbon. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a circumference on which all conditions, distinctions, and individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu *Stat crux dum volvitur orbis.* *(The cross stands motionless while the world revolves.) *Carthusian motto *It is *we *who change; *He* remains the same.* Eckhart *Kinei hos eromenon.* (*It moves [all things] as the beloved.) *Aristotle -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
